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Casa Grande Union High School

Casa Grande, AZ

Automated wildfire protection system

The Casa Grande Union High School InvenTeam is inventing an automatically activated firefighting device to prevent the spread of wildfires in indefensible neighborhoods. Homeowners benefit from this device by having it available for installation, this in turn means more homeowners have a higher chance of their houses being saved. The device is composed of a reservoir, compressed air tank, air pressure gauges, hoses, solar panels, spray nozzles, infrared sensor packages, pneumatic solenoid valves, and a proportioning chamber.

Recent Team Blogs

T-minus 36 days before our InvenTeam leaves for Eureka Fest and there is still much to get done. Our invention has gone through multiple tests and tweaks, yet I feel that each day the finish line moves farther from us. We have been severely behind in fundraising since January and my hopes that...

We returned from Spring Break just over a week ago, and its as if we never left. Our jobs as a team are becomming more distinct as we head to crunch time. As Communications Lead, I have been scheduling fundraising events and reaching out to potential benefactors once again. On March 27th, Barro's...

Our team has been buckling down to make sure we are right on schedule for the Mid-Grant Technical Review. We've been making GREAT progress on our invention prototype by gathering the materials we need to start our second round of testing. The first round of testing was a complete fail, but not...

We have changed our audience for our invention! We found that, though firefighters gained benefits from this invention, the ultimate benefactors were the homeowners whose house was saved in a financial and emotional way. Firefighters will have much to gain, but homeowners reap the benefits...

After many weeks of designing our invention theoretically, our InvenTeam has started to gather supplies needed to create our first physical prototype. Over winter break, our team met up at our local Lowe's, Home Depot, and Harbor Freight to browse the materials in store there. We hoped to be...

Here we go again. A great start to a great year. But we can not get a head of ourselves. Just getting back from break so we are trying to get into the groove of things. We are back to the drawing board of rough prototyping using a few materials that can be found from around the workshop. Using...

Our Team was featured in the 10/31 issue of the Casa Grande Dispatch. Read the full article here
CASA GRANDE — With a $10,000 grant, a team of eight Casa Grande Union High School science students hopes to develop a new device that will help control wildfires and protect homes.
The...